EasyZip component (request)
lazarus / 7-LCL

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Rave · 2011-07-22 22:35

I have hard time using zlib, so I'd like to request easy to use
component for handling zip (and maybe lzma) archives. I'd like to see
following functions:

openArchive(filename:PChar,compressionLevel:byte;)

Opens archive with path in filename and set it's compression level to
compressionLevel. Invoked by constructor.


addFile(path,pathinZip:PChar; createDirs:Boolean)

adds file in path as pathinzip, if some of directories in pathinZip
are missing and createDirs=true they're created inside archive.
Example:
Code: [Select]EasyZip1.addFile('c:\letter to mom.doc','letters/letter
to mom.doc');

addDirectory(path:PChar;);

adds directory in path to archive


extract(path:PChar;createDirs:Boolean)

extracts archive to specifed location. If createDirs=true and some of
directories are missing in patch, they're created along the way.

closearchive();

Closes archive and writes it to disk. Invoked by destructor.

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BigChimp · 2011-07-23 05:58

Sometimes searching the forum can be enlightening 

Does this:
http://lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,12983.msg70195.html#msg7
0195
help?

(You can forget about the Delphi part, but it shows there already is
support for zip/unzip)

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Rave · 2011-07-23 06:01

Yeah, I thought about that, but function names are so confusing. I
need only basic functionality as described in OP as I want just to
make xml-based ODF-like document format and instead of keeping whole
directory, keep just one file..